Showing posts with label daily drawing challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daily drawing challenge. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2015

Doodle Day SPARKS



Can you believe Doodle Day has 594 members?? WOW! I love knowing that there are soo many people doodling out there. We started as a 1 month doodle challenge in May 2013 and just kept on doodling. November 2015 marks our 31st consecutive month of doodling every day. If you don't know the way it works, join the Doodle Day group on Facebook, then you click on the file for the month and the list of doodle prompts are listed there. If there are blank spaces after any of the days, doodle members are welcome to add something appropriate to the theme. We have to keep in mind that we have doodlers as young as 4 years old in there so all doodle prompts and doodles are G rated. The prompts are there to inspire and challenge. We all know that it can be stressful to stare at a blank page and not know what to draw so the prompt lists take that stress away. Doodle Day can be used as a daily creative exercise, a warm up for a more difficult art piece you are working on, a relaxation technique, an activity to get the creativity flowing before writing a story or a business proposal or working on homework. Doodling should not take a lot of thought. Put your pencil to the page and see what happens. Try new mediums and drawing techniques. I started playing with a brush pen Doodle Day in 2013 and now that's all I use. I learned how to paint with watercolors in there. I started working with acrylics and canvas there. Doodle Day is an opportunity to create without judgement, without grades, and without the stress of it being a perfect piece for a portfolio or art exhibit. Just create. It is the most supportive creative environment that I know of and I am soo happy that soo many doodlers are there to support my love of being creative every day. 

If you'd like to join Doodle Day - click on this link and join our doodle community. DOODLE DAY


Monday, August 11, 2014

My Doodles from July 28th to August 9th

 
Here are the last few days of Animals with a Twist...
 
GUINNEA PIG
 
CHAMELEON

FERRET

ARMADILLO

MOUSE
 
On to August...
August brings a new month of doodles and a new challenging theme. This month in Doodle Day, we are focusing on INSECTS and to make it even more challenging, we are combining it with A to Z so each day the prompt is a letter and each doodler has the freedom of selecting an Insect that starts with that letter. There are soo many fascinating insects out there and a lot of wonderful Entomology sites that even list them for us in alphabetical order so it is just up to us to select which one to doodle. Fun!


A is for Acrobat Ants

B is for Dancing Bees

C is for Crickets

D is for Dragonfly

E is for Elephant Beetle

F is for Firefly

G is for Greenfly

H is for Heliconius Charithonia Butterfly
 
I is for Insects
 
Come back next Sunday to see all of the insect doodles I create this week!
If you like to doodle and want to start participating in Doodle Day, join our Facebook Group page to become part of the doodling community!
 
If you want to see more of my doodles and illustrations, check out my ONLINE PORTFOLIO.
You can also find me on TWITTER @AlisonHertz, GOOGLE+, PINTEREST, and FACEBOOK.
 
If Doodle Day looks like something you would enjoy participating in, CLICK HERE to go to the Facebook group where I post the prompts and more than 300 doodlers share their doodles.
 
 Post a comment or suggest a Doodle theme (just keep it family friendly). : )
Have fun!
 

Monday, July 28, 2014

Animals With a Twist Month - July 21-27



Welcome to my 3rd post of ANIMALS WITH A TWIST doodles! This week was a quite a varied group but just as much fun as all the others.  Scroll down to check out my doodles from the week!

HORSE
 GRYPHON

CHIMERA

OWLS
 
MORE OWLS - These were a lot of fun.
 
Erin's OWLS


WILD CATS - I chose TIGER CUBS


BEAR
 
 
HAMSTER

I doodled this last week after receiving good news about an illustration I submitted to a major press.
We have had many new doodlers join the online Doodle Day daily drawing challenge community and I am thrilled. The more people who feel the power of doodling - the better. Welcome to all of our new participants.
 
 
If you like to doodle and want to start participating in Doodle Day, join our Facebook Group page to become part of the doodling community!
 
If you still aren't sure if Doodle Day is for you - check out this video!


 

 
In addition to my own drawings this week - my daughter (co-founder of Doodle Day) attended
Mini Masters Painting Camp and here are 4 of her pieces from the week:
 
Inspired by Mondrian
Erin didn't like the "stiffness" of the straight lines so she filled her own
with an "upside down rainbow."
 
Inspired by Frida Kahlo
 
Inspired by Monet
 
Inspired by Klimt
 
Come back to my blog next weekend to check out the last week of ANIMALS WITH A TWIST.
Next month, we will be doodling Insects and Bugs and following an A to Z format - which will increase the variety of the posts.
 
If you want to see more of my doodles and illustrations, check out my ONLINE PORTFOLIO.
You can also find me on TWITTER @AlisonHertz, GOOGLE+, PINTEREST, and FACEBOOK.
 
If Doodle Day looks like something you would enjoy participating in, CLICK HERE to go to the Facebook group where I post the prompts and more than 300 doodlers share their doodles.
 
 Post a comment or suggest a Doodle theme (just keep it family friendly). : )
Have fun!

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Doodle Day: Animals with a Twist - July 7-13

 Welcome to my summary of the second week of Animals with a Twist month at Doodle Day!

Deer

Rabbit
 

Raccoon
 
Possum
 
Squirrel
 

Another Squirrel
 
Snake

Panda
 
Come back to my blog next weekend to check out another week of ANIMALS WITH A TWIST.
 
If you want to see more of my doodles and illustrations, check out my ONLINE PORTFOLIO.
You can also find me on TWITTER @AlisonHertz, GOOGLE+, PINTEREST, and FACEBOOK.
 
If Doodle Day looks like something you would enjoy participating in, CLICK HERE to go to the Facebook group where I post the prompts and more than 300 doodlers share their doodles.
 
Post a comment or suggest a Doodle theme (just keep it family friendly). : )
 
Have fun!

Friday, May 2, 2014

Doodle Day Giveaway Winners!



I'm soo excited to announce the official winners of the Doodle Day Giveaway Winners! Without further delay, please congratulate:

Doodle Day Button:
Dani Duck!
Yvonne Mes!
Louann Brown!
 
Doodle Day Mug:
Jerry Bennett!
 
and the Grand Prize of a Doodle Day t-shirt goes to:
Mary Flynn!

Congratulations to all of you and thank you to everyone else who entered and shared Doodle Day with the world.

Winners, please email me your mailing address at Alison@AlisonHertz.com. Mary, please let me know what size t-shirt to send.

If anyone would like to order Doodle Day SWAG on their own, click here: Doodle Day Store.

Coming soon - New Banner Designs - I will ask Doodlers if I can use one of his or her doodles for our group banner and change the design ever few weeks. You are also welcome to create doodles specifically for the Doodle Day Banner.

We are just starting out with Nature Month today. Now, I'm off to doodle some Lilies.

Keep Doodling!
-Alison